I AM a little bit confused about the use of statistics, percentages and the application of wording to justify the figures presented.

Your editorial (Echo, Jan 15) specified that the leave vote was by “the slimmest of margins” with a majority of four per cent but delivered by a 33m voters with a majority in excess of one million.

And yet after the voting on the Brexit amendments in Parliament on Tuesday, Jeremy Corbyn declared that a winning margin of eight votes from a 650 maximum vote, representing just over one per cent of the MPs, was “emphatic” on the non-binding no-deal amendment proposed by two remain MPs.

It seems that justification is ramped up if it suits the remain camp and marked down if it affects the leave Camp.

But what was clarified on Tuesday night is that “no Brexit” is now off the table with the only two viable options remaining being to leave with no-deal or to pursue the dropping of the backstop clause within the Withdrawal Agreement.

Remain and Labour has shot its bolt and missed the target.

The debate has run its course and remain has run out of steam and excuses.

Can we now please get on with leaving the EU.

Bill Fisher, Spennymoor